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CONTAINER 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Oct. 7, 1959 fee McmuelA .EngberRober'? Bloom INVENTORS.

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Aug- 1, 1 6 M. A. ENGBER ET AL CONTAINER 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Oct. 7,1959 Manue|A.Engber Robert Bloom INVENTORS.

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2,994,470 CONTAINER Manuel A. Engber, 443 Georgia Ave., and RobertBloom, 308 E. 45th St., both of Brooklyn, N.Y. Filed Oct. 7, 1959, Ser.No. 844,922 6 Claims. (61. 229 52) Our present invention relates to acontainer and, more particularly, to a cardboard box or the like havinghandle means whereby it may be conveniently carried or removably securedto a suitable supoprt.

An object of our invention is to provide a container of this characterwhich, together with the aforementioned handle means, may be readilystamped from a blank of cardboard or the like.

Another object of this invention is to provide a box of cardboard orsimilar sheet material which is initially free from any projectinghandle portion, being thus conveniently stacked or otherwise stored, yetwhich may be provided with such handle by a simple operation when beingtaken into use.

A more specific object of the instant invention is to provide acontainer, adapted to serve as a dispenser for disposable tissues or thelike, having an integral handle portion which can be used for removablysecuring the dispenser to the sun Visor of an automobile, or to somesimilar support, while prior to such use serving to help keep thecontents of the dispenser substantially sealed against the atmosphere.

In accordance with thi invention we provide a container, preferably madeintegrally by stamping from a single blank of sheet material, one sideof which is formed with a weakened portion along an open outline (e.g.along three sides of a rectangle) to define a partly detachable tonguewhich, when pulled out so as to remain hinged to the container on oneedge only, exposes a second tongue within the interior of the container,this second tongue being adapted to be pulled out through the gap leftin the container side by the partial removal of the first tongue; thefree extremities of the two tongues are adapted to be connectedtogether, preferably in an adjustable man ner, by mechanical or adhesivefastener means to form a closed loop projecting from the container. Ifthis container is a tissue dispenser, the loop is advantageouslyarranged on the side opposite the opening for the tissues.

The above and other objects, features and advantages of our inventionwill become more fully apparent from the following detailed description,reference being made to the accompanying drawing in which:

FIG. 1 is a plan View of a blank adapted to be formed into a tissuedispenser according to the invention;

FIG. 1A is a fragmentary View of a modified blank;

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the dispenser formed from the blank ofFIG. 1, with parts broken away to expose the interior;

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the same dispenser in use; and

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a modified container embodying theinvention.

In FIG. 1 we show a blank of sheet material, eg cardboard, which isdivided by orthogonal crease lines 14, as by scoring, into tworectangular main portions 11, 21 respectively designed to form the frontand rear Walls of the container; flaps 15, 25 adapted to constitute theshorter side walls thereof; flaps 16, 26 and an intermediate strip 17defining the longer side walls; and tabs 13, 23 serving as cornerreinforcements. Front-wall portion 11 is weakened, along an ellipticaloutline defined by perforations 12, so as to have a central portion 19which can be readily pushed out to give access to the contents of thefinished box in a manner well known per se. Rear-wall portion 21 issimilarly weakened by perforations 22 along three sides of a rectangulararea 29, the fourth side of the rectangle coinciding with the part 14 ofthe crease line 14 separating wall portion 21 from strip 17. A tongue28, narrower than the rectangular portion 29 but of similar length,projects integrally outwardly from flap 26 and is provided with creaselines 24', 24" whose spacing from each other corresponds to the Width ofthis flap. Tongue 28 is further provided near its end with a hole 28 toreceive a clip-type metal fastener 28" (see FIGS. 2 and 3); therectangular portion 29, which when pushed out along its three perforatedsides constitutes a similar tongue hinged to the box at 14', has punchedout therein a plurality of holes 29 to accommodate the prongs offastener 28".

To form the blank 10 of FIG. 1 into the box 20 of FIG. 2, flaps 16 and26 are glued together in the usual manner, as are the flaps 15, 25 andthe tabs13, 23. As the box 20 is intended to serve as a dispenser forpaper tissues, a stack of such tissues, not shown, is inserted beforethe box is closed. At the same time the tongue 28 is told ed around itscrease lines 24', 24" to lie fiat under the stack against the tongueportion 29, at the same time covering the holes 29' thereof. When thedispenser is subsequently taken into use, elliptical portion 19 ispushed out to give access to the tissues 31 as shown in FIG. 3; on theother side of box 20, as illustrated in dot-dash lines in FIG. 2, tongue29 is detached from the box on three sides so as to depend therefrom andto render accessible the tongue 28 therewithin. Next, the tongues 28, 29are interconnected to form a looped strap about a suitable support, suchas the automobile sun visor 30 shown in dot-dash lines in FIG. 3, bypassing the prongs of clip 28" through one of the holes 29 chosen inaccordance with the girth of the support. The dispenser is now heldsecurely yet removably in place, with the tissues 31 fully accessible tothe user.

In the modification of FIG. 1A we have shown the blank 10 formed with aslit 14A through which passes a separately manufactured T-shaped tongue28A. The T- head of tongue 28A anchors this tongue to the blank,advantageously by being pasted to the flap 26 when this flap is joinedto flap 16 (FIG. 1) to form a box. The shank of tongue 28A is shownprovided at its free end with a pressure-sensitive adhesive 32originally masked by a removable strip 33; in this manner the tongue 28Acan be adhesively joined to the companion tongue 29 after the latter hasbeen punched out in the manner previously described.

In FIG. 4 we have shown a modified container 40, in the form of a smallhand suitcase, which may have been folded from a blank in the samemanner as dispenser 20 and which one one of its sides is formed with atongue 49 previously severed on three sides from the surroundingcontainer wall while remaining hinged to its at its fourth, narrowerside. Out of the rectangular gap 42, left in the container wall by theremoval of tongue 49, there emerges another tongue 48 which in this caseis a separate strip of sheet material, of T-shaped configuration, havingits head 44 pasted or otherwise secured to the in ner surface of thecontainer wall. The tongue 48, 49 are again interconnected, as by maleand female snap fasteners 49', 48', to close into a loop adapted toserve as a carrying handle.

It will be apparent that there are many ways in which a temporary orpermanent connection may be established between the extremities of thehandle-forming tongues. If the hidden tongue is not integral with theblank, as shown for the members 28A and 48, it may be produced in thesame stamping operation from waste portions of the sheet. Naturally,this tongue may then be attached to the container blank in various ways,eg, by pasting or stapling.

Although the invention has been particularly described with reference totwo specific embodiments, it will be understood that the same may bemodified in various ways without departing from the spirit and scope ofthe invention except as limited in the appended claims.

We claim:

l. A prismatic container of sheet material comprising a wall with asection weakened along an outline defining an elongated first tongueintegrally hinged to said wall when partly removed from said wall alongsaid outline, and a second elongated tongue positioned within thecontainer in longitudinally overlapping relationship with said firsttongue, said second tongue being hinged to a wall of the container at alocation remote from the hinge of said first tongue and accessiblethrough the gap left upon the partial detachment of said first tongue,at least one of said tongues being provided on its free extremity withfastening means for securing it to the free extremity of the othertongue, thereby forming said tongues into a closed loop, said othertongue having a formation cooperating with said fastening means.

2. A container according to claim I wherein said tongues are hinged to acommon wall at locations separated by said gap.

3. A container according to claim 1 wherein said second tongue isprovided with an enlarged head and is anchored to the container wall bypassing through a slit thereof.

4. A container according to claim 1 wherein said fastening meansincludes a first formation on one of said tongues and a plurality ofsecond formations, selectively engageable by said first formation, onthe other of said tongue.

5. A container according to claim 1 wherein said sec- 0nd tongue isnarrower than said first tongue but of substantially the same length.

6. A container of sheet material comprising a wall with a sectionweakened along an open outline, said section forming a first tonguehinged to said wall when partly removed from said wall along saidoutline, and a second hinged tongue underlying said section and beingaccessible through the gap in said wall left upon the partial detachmentof said first tongue, said wall being provided with a slit, said secondtongue passing partly through said slit and being provided with anenlarged head maintaining it anchored to said wall, at least one of saidtongues being provided on its free extremity with fastening means forsecuring it to the free extremity of the other tongue, thereby formingsaid tongues into a closed loop.

References Cited inthe file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS2,889,104 Caster June 2, 1959

